Photographer Daniel Weeks snapped shots of every block in Manhattan in 1982, which he's now getting up online. His street-level portraits show the storefronts and buildings lining the sidewalks back in the day, from a head-on angle. And now everyone is having fun comparing them with the modern day view. Sadly, they're a little small... but maybe that's good because we're starting to have aesthetic envy. more ›

Usually when we look at side by side comparisons of how a certain city street looked back in the day, versus now, there's a lot of change. However, the intersection of Brooklyn Avenue and Pacific Street in Brooklyn seems to have stayed the same for quite some time (even if realtors are aiming to call the neighborhood Pro Cro these days). The old photo here is from March 18th, 1901, and here we are 110 years later and nothing has changed... except, you know, it looked so nice and new and clean back then. more ›

The old photographs in this set were taken in 1935 by Berenice Abbott, who documented much of the city at that time; she took them on Broome Street, between West Broadway and Thompson Street. None of the buildings in the photographs she took are there anymore, and has there ever been a building on the corner of Broome and Thompson? In 1935 there wasn't, in 1998 there wasn't, and currently there isn't. Attention developers: virgin land! more ›

Not long ago we checked in on 156 Canal Street, which had been stripped of its former architectural glory, and today we look back on 175 2nd Avenue, the address of former Governor of New York William Sulzer. This was his home at the corner of 2nd Avenue and East 11st Street, and according to the Library of Congress the photograph was taken sometime between 1910 and 1915. He served as a U.S. Representative from New York from 1895 to December 31, 1912, resigning when elected Governor of New York, an office he held for less than a year before being impeached. more ›

Ever get that feeling you were born in the wrong era... at least, architecturally? Here's a look at 156 Canal Street circa 1910-1915, when it was the White House Hotel. According to the Library of Congress this is where "John F. Schrank lived before his attempted assassination of U.S. President Teddy Roosevelt in 1912." (More photos of Schrank's arrest here). Since that time, as you can see, the building has been stripped of its gorgeous facade, and an HSBC bank has set up shop next door. Paging Doc Brown, we're gonna need that DeLorean asap. more ›